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Counsel That Cares - The Private Payer's Perspective on Value-Based Care
Opting Out of Medicare: When and How to Do It
Medical Device Legal News with Sam Bernstein: Episode 11
Show Me the Money: New Study Confirms Hospice Saves Money for Medicare
An Unwanted Spotlight: DOJ Announces Hospice Fraud Is Top Priority
The Chartwell Chronicles: Medicare & Medicaid
Navigating EMTALA Rules
Heed Caution: Takeaways From the OIG's Advance Care Planning Report
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Telehealth Risk Report: What the Government Found
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On February 10, 2020, the White House unveiled its proposed budget (the Budget) for FY 2021, which would decrease funding for HHS by 10 percent. Medicare and Medicaid would bear the brunt of these cuts. For both programs...more
The Trump Administration on Feb. 12 released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 budget request, titled "An American Budget." Unlike last year's budget, which was released in late May, the release of this budget conforms to the typical...more
Congress moved one step closer to avoiding a government shutdown on Feb. 6, voting overwhelmingly (245-182) to pass a short-term, GOP-backed government funding bill (text; section-by-section) that would keep the federal...more
Following a final vote in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday morning, Dec. 20, 2017, Congress sent the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (H.R. 1) to President Donald Trump's desk. In addition to extensive revisions to the tax...more
On November 13, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued the final rule, “Medicare Program: Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment and Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment Systems and Quality Reporting...more
While September 30, 2017 has been an important procedural deadline for purposes of the GOP’s most recent legislative push to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it also serves a critical funding deadline for purposes of the...more
In March, I posted about the Uncertain Future of the 340B Drug Discount Program. When opining about What Could Happen Next I speculated about possible changes to government reimbursement for 340B drugs “so that government...more
CMS seeks input on potential market stabilization rulemaking; Iowa proposes a single standardized Marketplace plan and reinsurance program; and Centene will expand its Marketplace offerings for 2018, including adding new...more
The Trump Administration released on May 23, 2017, its full Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 budget request, titled "A New Foundation for American Greatness." President Donald Trump's request builds off of the administration's March 16...more
The President's budget proposes over $600 billion in Medicaid cuts on top of major reductions anticipated in repeal and replace legislation; the Trump Administration asks the Court for more time to decide on cost-sharing...more